[15]
Indeed we will not. However, as far as
concerns any money you may pay we will in the presence of the banker agree to
annul the agreement; but cancel it in its entirety we will not, until we get a
verdict on the matters under dispute. For what just plea shall we have, or on
what can we rely when we come to a contest at law, whether we have to appear
before an arbitrator or before a court, if we have cancelled the agreement on
which we rely for the recovery of our rights?”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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